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Grayslake High School Gets High End Synthetic Turf

May 23, 2007 by  
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There is a story and an editorial in the Lakeland Journal this week that the residents of Grayslake High School District 127 should be aware of. The story is on the competitive “not so competive” bidding proccess for the Synthetic turf to be put in at Grayslake Central. [Emphasis mine]

          

GRAYSLAKE – District 127 will pay nearly $150,000 more than the lowest bid for a synthetic field turf at Grayslake Central High School.

In fact, the school board – following the recommendation of administrators – accepted the highest of five bids for the project.
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Michael Zelek, associate superintendent for business services at District 127, said only FieldTurf Inc., based in Montreal, had offered what the school wanted. That company’s base bid came in at more than $840,000.
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“The district had its sights set on a specific field,” Zelek said. “The board determined that FieldTurf did the type of work and had experience doing the work.”
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The following, according to District 127 documents obtained by the Lake County Journals, are the rejected base bids:

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4 Responses to “Grayslake High School Gets High End Synthetic Turf”
  1. Jim Check says:
    June 2, 2007 at 5:00 am

    I totally agree with you. A few years ago, they claimed to be
    out of money and sports/music would need to be cut. The tax
    increase we turned down should have told them to loook within
    their budget to fix their problems. By some accounting miracle, the
    $2,500,000 was found. Now they have a $7,000,000 budget overage.
    How about sending the extra back to the tax payers or send it
    into the teacher retirement fund that is bankrupting this state?
    Didn’t we just spend $1,500,000 to put in a sprinkler system
    into that field? Can’t little Susie and Johnny play on grass?
    All this teaches is finacial insanity.

  2. Nadine Sidoriak says:
    October 18, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Our school district is considering fieldturf for replacing the
    present field, if you guys had made the switch can you please
    give me some insight as to the end results, injuries, etc?
    Any information will be greatly appreciated

  3. Nadine Sidoriak says:
    October 18, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Our school district is considering fieldturf for replacing the
    present field, if you guys had made the switch can you please
    give me some insight as to the end results, injuries, etc?
    Any information will be greatly appreciated

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